As both Hillary Clinton and former Australian PM Julia Gillard – credit where it’s due to both – have recently observed, the pro-Hamas mobs storming university campuses and social media are singularly ignorant of history. “They don’t know very much at all about the history of the Middle East, or
Opinion polling shows that support for Israel among ordinary people remains strong. Very few support Hamas. Yet, that is not what we see peddled by the media, who too-obviously sympathise with the vicious ignoramuses screaming in the streets and on university campuses. Yet again, the divide between the elite minority
As former Australian PM Julia Gillard recently said, too many of the most passionate loudmouths cheering on Hamas are almost entirely ignorant of the facts of history regarding Israel and “Palestine”. “I think a lot of what is going on today is a distortion of history from social media. It’
Peter Berkowitz Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. From 2019 to 2021, he served as director of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department. His writings are posted at PeterBerkowitz.com and he can be followed on
Who would have thought, back in the 2000s, that the Howard years would seem like a golden age of good governance? Or that John Howard would teach the self-appointed moral elite what ethics and leadership really mean? Yet, here we are. Labor, whose past great leader warned that, “If the
Like the Covid pandemic, the Gaza war is a litmus test of basic moral fibre. As depressing as it is to see how many have failed dismally, it’s at least reassuring — and often surprising — to see who passes with flying colours. I am not, it is putting it lightly,
Hendrik van der Breggen Hendrik van der Breggen, PhD, is a retired philosophy professor (formerly at Providence University College, Manitoba, Canada) and author of the recent book Untangling Popular Anti-Israel Arguments: Critical Thinking about the Israel-Hamas War. A PDF is available for free at his blog APOLOGIA or the paperback
One of the most perplexing weirdnesses of these grim times is the sight of tens of thousands of ‘progressives’ loudly and often violently supporting a group who are the antithesis of nearly everything they profess to hold dear. From women’s rights to gay rights, human rights to secularism: Hamas
Dr. Yvette Alt Miller Dr. Yvette Alt Miller holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and has taught at Northwestern University, London Business School, and lectured around the world. aish.com Equating Israel with Hamas, the ICC’s actions are morally outrageous. Karim Khan,
DW Duke DW Duke is a California trial attorney and an author of eight books. He is a human rights activist, the President of The Institute for Children’s Aid, former Director of Legal Affairs of Stop Child Executions, and co-founder of 70 Nations, Jerusalem, which are organizations devoted to
As Thomas Sowell has noted, one of the most destablising forces a society can ever endure is the emergence of a large class of university-educated “intellectuals” solely based in the Humanities. This is not to say, of course, that the Humanities are inherently to blame. After all, Sowell himself is
I’ve never been exactly a fan of former Olympian Nova Peris’ politics — after all, she entered politics on the Labor side at Julia Gillard’s behest, and has long co-chaired the Australian Republican Movement. Or, rather: she had. Because, although she might have chosen to go into politics on
Katrina Lantos Swett realclearwire.com I graduated from Yale University in 1974. As a first-generation American, the child of Holocaust survivors, and among the first women admitted to this incredible school, it is hard to adequately express how grateful I was for this opportunity. I have enjoyed returning to campus
Sheree Trotter Dr Sheree Trotter, of Te Arawa iwi, is a writer and researcher published locally and internationally in newspapers and journals, who holds a PhD in history from the University of Auckland. This piece was first published at Plain Sight bassettbrashandhide.com Shortly after 7 October, a friend phoned
